BUDGET CRITICISMS.
c'TBOU THE LIBERAL SIDE. ' A FOrAKCIEB'JB SUGGESTION.
(Received 8.15 a~m.)
LONDON, June 9.
Messrs Horatio Bottomley, Liberal |LP. for King's Lynn, and Harold Cox, liberal M.P. "for Preston, sharply criticised the Budget in the House of Common* torday, particularly the liquor lienMs'and land taxes. Mr Bottomley suggested a transfer (tamp on stocks and shares, claiming that this would realise 20 millions annually. ■Mr B. G. Preiyman, Secretary to the .'Admiralty from 1903 to 1906, dealing jit! the impossibility of estimating the vorth of unworked minerals, as was proposed, instanced the Rosyth base, for Jiich the Admiralty paid Lord Linlithgow £15,000, and had since quarried £100,000 worth of stone, while not a tenth. was yet quarried.
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Auckland Star, Volume XL, Issue 137, 10 June 1909, Page 5
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